NEW YORK CITY — Socialist Zohran Mamdani will be New York City’s next mayor, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa on Tuesday night.
Mamdani will be New York’s next mayor after receiving 50.4% of the vote with 75% of ballots counted so far. The Associated Press called the race at 9:34 p.m. Close to 9 p.m., New York City voters came out in such force to vote that the city saw the highest turnout since 1969, with more than 2 million ballots cast by that time.
With the win, Mamdani becomes the city’s first Muslim mayor and one of its youngest mayors ever.
Mamdani rode his youth movement and social media savvy to the finish line after launching his campaign last year as an unknown in
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